Countries launch nature coalition at UN COP16 talks, warn of human extinction
Cali, Colombia Reuters Colombia at the UN COP16 biodiversity talks on Tuesday launched a coalition with 20 other countries seeking to make “peace with nature,” as leaders warned that the rapid destruction of the environment risks humanity’s own extinction. The summit of nearly 200 countries under way in the mountain-ringed city of Cali is tasked […]
Solar eclipse shines a ‘ring of fire’ over Easter Island and Patagonia
Hanga Roa, Easter Island/Las Horquetas, Argentina Reuters The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday afternoon, giving just a few specks of land an impressive annular “ring of fire” eclipse. Only Easter Island and a small area near the southern tip of Chile and Argentina witnessed an annular eclipse, […]
Essay: A new wave of Venezuelan refugees would threaten a humanitarian crisis – Latin America could learn from Europe
OMAR HAMMOUD GALLEGO, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at lessons from the European experience in responding to those fleeing the war in Ukraine…
Drought-hit lakes in Chile come back to life after downpours
Santiago, Chile Reuters Recent torrential rains in Chile have brought back to life – for now at least – reservoirs and lagoons that had all but dried up after years of drought, with dramatic images of cracked lake beds replaced by mirror-like still waters. A severe years-long drought had decimated water supplies and hit local […]
Aquafarming becomes main global source for fish, UN food agency says
Rome, Italy Reuters For the first time farmed aquatic production has exceeded the catch from traditional captured fisheries, the UN food and agriculture agency said on Friday, underscoring hopes that aquaculture can meet growing global demand for seafood. In its latest biennial report on the state of world fisheries, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization […]
Chile to install world’s largest astronomy camera on the edge of Atacama desert
Santiago, Chile Reuters With a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels, a nearly three-ton weight and the ambitious task of carrying out an unprecedented decade-long exploration, the largest digital camera ever built for optical astronomy is ready to be installed under the clear skies of northern Chile. The pieces required to assemble the Vera C Rubin Observatory […]
Wow!: Innovative Chileans use discarded hair to clean up coasts and waterways
RODRIGO GUTIERREZ, of Reuters, reports on the work of Matter of Trust Chile…
Argentina’s 300 per cent inflation and propped-up peso spawn Paraguay border ghost town
Nanawa, Paraguay Reuters Paraguayan shoppers used to flock in their droves to the border town of Nanawa to buy cheap imports from Argentina, where the weak peso currency for years kept relative prices low for fuel, medicine and groceries smuggled in across the frontier. Now Nanawa is a ghost town, with prices of the contraband […]
Chile’s capital faces fiercest cold snap in decades
Santiago, Chile Reuters Chileans are bundling up with more clothes and clutching cups of hot coffee as the country faces the most intense cold snap in nearly 70 years, bringing winter weather in the middle of autumn. “Since 1950, that is, in the last 74 years, we had not had a cold wave as intense […]
Auroras dazzle in Latin America as solar storm causes rare displays
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters The biggest geomagnetic storm in two decades, sparked by solar flares, caused dazzling lights displays in parts of Latin America overnight on Friday, including a rare appearance in Mexico. A view shows the lights of an Aurora Borealis caused by a geomagnetic storm over the border cities of Mexicali, Mexico and […]